UnoArduino

I've pored over dozens of posts similar to this topic, but I am LINUX and C illiterate, and am struggling. I need to get Arduino 0021 onto my Ubuntu V10.10 machine, in order to drive my Aduino Uno. I tried installing Arduino from the Ubuntu Software Center, but it only provides Version 0018. I tried loading/istalling it via "sudo apt-get" from a Command Line in a Terminal, but again it only came up with V.18. I downloaded Arduino 0021 from Arduino.cc, and extracted it, but don't know how to get it to install. I read about Debian and downloaded 0021+dfss-2.debian and got it to extract, but cannot figure out how to get debian to install it. Can anyone give me really simple advice on how to get either of these downloads to install? Any assistance will be appreciated...thanks in advance.

UnoArduino

Well, Mark, I got about halfway through it (I did have to add a z to the tar command, then it seemed to work). Later, it seems to have encountered trouble after I told it to search for the serial library, and it asked me for my password:

The install Ubuntu without package on the playground works for me. Basically install the pre-requisites using apt or sysnaptic and just extract the arduino download to your home folder (do not use sudo, it will effectively make it read only to the ordinary user). Never had to change permissions or add users to groups etc.

0022 is out ? That passed me by......

http://pluggy.is-a-geek.com/index.html

UnoArduino

Thanks, Pluggy, for the alternate suggestion, but I am so uninitiated in Linux I am afraid I'd screw it up.I, too, was surprised to learn from mrtaylor that 0022 was out.mrtaylor, I changed the Find command per your suggestion, and the only two librxtxserial files that it found were in the Arduino 0021 and 0022 packages. I initiated a file search of my own under the Places pulldown, and those were the only two found. Does this mean that when my son built this machine that he may have missed a library file? I think I've successfully used the USB port on this machine in the ast, but am not sure of that.

Then run the arduino file. If that doesn't work, you can install the "RXTX" package in Synaptic Package Manager, and then follow the instructions about replacing the RXTX from the Arduino software with the one from the distribution's package.

I downloaded Arduino 0021 from Arduino.cc, and extracted it, but don't know how to get it to install

Maybe I'm just lucky, but that's what I did too, and you are almost there if you have done that. Just go to the directory you extracted it to. I'm using /home/myusername/arduino-0021/ - so I type "cd arduino-0021/", and then start it by typing:

./arduino

In the terminal. Or just write "./a" - then hit TAB, and it should auto-complete.

Using Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit btw. Also 9.10 on a 32-bit ubuntu.

UnoArduino

SUCCESS! 0022 ran. I was able to select the Uno board. I successfully uploaded a sketch.Thanks all who helped, particularly mrtaylor, who invested a lot of time. You've made this old man happy. God bless.

Running Kubuntu 10.10 amd-64 Arduino UNO with -0022. Anyone having problem with reading serial data from the UNO board? I was trying to work through the programs "Getting started with Arduino" book and anything that reads serial data back hangs up. If I put a large delay 100 or more I can read the data on the serial monitor.

Another problem, when I installed the Processing language it somehow wipes out arduino -0022 and makes it -0018 complete with Icon on the desktop! I forget the specifics but I have to run -0022 from it's directory to get it to work again.